Industry-sponsored contest offering $7 million in prizes to accelerate zero-knowledge cryptography to enable the technology to help scale blockchain networks
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ZPrize
You are invited to compete!
The challenge is modeled after the famous XPrize competitions that have used private contributions to fuel advances in a variety of areas including spaceflight, adult literacy, and ocean health. For the ZPrize, teams will compete for awards by engineering new algorithms and techniques that achieve performance metrics unmatched by the best zero-knowledge systems deployed in the blockchain industry today.
“The goal of the ZPrize is to spur a quantum leap in zero-knowledge cryptography that so many Web3 protocol and application developers are waiting for to enable their products to scale to millions,” – Alex Pruden, COO of Aleo & founder of the ZPrize initiative.
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